Taha Muhyi al-Din Maruf

Taha Muhyi al-Din Maruf (1929-7 August 2009) was the Vice-President of Ba'athist Iraq from 1975 to 2003 under Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and Saddam Hussein.

Biography
Taha Muhyi al-Din Maruf was born in 1929 to a prominent Kurdish family in northern Iraq, and he joined the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in 1968. He served as ambassador to Italy, Malta, and Albania as well as Vice-President from 1975 to 2003. On 2 May 2003, Maruf was captured by the United States during the opening stages of the Iraq War, and he was later released. Maruf died in Amman, Jordan on 7 August 2009 and was buried in Erbil, Iraq the next day.